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Assessing the potential impact of strengthening food safety regulations on developing countries: The US Food Safety and Modernization Act
Mosquera, Mauricio; Evans, Edward A.; Walters, Lurleen M.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
This paper’s goal is to assess the extent to which producers in Developing Countries have coped stricter US food safety regulations. We approach the question by calculating refusals/imports ratios and their trends for a sample of Developing Countries. We conclude there is a learning process in...
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The Impact of Non-tariff Barriers on Trade: The Gravity Model on Turkish Agri-Food Products
Asci, Serhat; Koc, A. Ali; Erdem, M. Sukru - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The competition between the U.S. and the E.U. agricultural subsidies during 1980s decreased the world prices in agricultural and food markets but caused an extensive distortion in the international trade of agricultural and food products. Under these circumstances, World Trade Organization (WTO)...
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Consumer Demand for Quality: Major Determinant for Agricultural and Food Trade in the Future?
Caswell, Julie; Joseph, Siny - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2007
The impact of consumer demand for quality on the agricultural and food system is an increased emphasis on quality differentiation but not all in the direction of upgrading quality. The more elite market segments are thriving and reaching growing numbers of consumers but the basic price/quality...
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The Impact of Food Safety Third-Party Certifications on China’s Food Exports to the United States
Zheng, Yuqing; Muth, Mary; Brophy, Jenna - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In this paper, we empirically examine the relationship between food safety TPC on a country’s food exports to the United States using data for 2010. We developed a modified gravity model to account for the role TPC plays in facilitating international food trade. we found that a 10% increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916334
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FOOD SAFETY: ECONOMIC THEORY AND CASE STUDIES
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003
Food safety regulations and the perception of risk are different among countries. This can lead to persistent trade frictions and even reduce food trade. These differences may also lead to increased dialogue between countries, with improved food safety systems the result. Although little...
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Effects of Food Safety Standards on Seafood Exports to US, EU and Japan
Nguyen, Anh Van Thi; Wilson, Norbert L.W. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
Estimating the panel gravity model with bilateral pair and country-by-time fixed-effects separately for each seafood product, we found that food safety regulations have differential effects across seafood products. In all three industrialized markets, shrimp is most sensitive, while fish is the...
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Was Food Safety Declining?: Assessing the Justification for the US Food Safety Modernisation Act
Nakuja, Tekuni; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
Food safety regulations limit trade in bioproducts. Every country, however, has a duty to protect its citizens from food safety hazards. If risks are increasing under an existing food safety system then a strengthening of the regulatory regime can be justified, with the inevitable negative...
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State-Branded Programs and Consumer Preference for Locally Grown Produce
Nganje, William E.; Hughner, Renee Shaw; Lee, Nicholas E. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 1
Revitalization of state brands is deemed important to several constituencies. Stated preference with choice experiment methods were used to elicit consumer preferences for two locally grown products: spinach, which has had a well-publicized food safety incidence, and carrots, which have had no...
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Traceability, Moral Hazard, and Food Safety
Starbird, S. Andrew; Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Roberts, Tanya - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
Errors in traceability can significantly impact the moral hazard associated with producing safe food. The effect of … on the efficiency of the traceability system. In this paper, we develop a model that identifies the minimum level of … traceability needed to mitigate moral hazard and motivate suppliers to produce safe food. Regulators and consumer can use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804822
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Rastreabilidade e Segurança do Alimento: Uma Investigação em um Contexto de Perigo Moral
Filho, Resende; Andrade, Moises de - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008
investigates how the reliability of a traceability system can affect food safety using a principal-agent framework. Incentive … mechanisms comprise the reliability of a traceability system capable of preserving the identities of raw material suppliers … attached to food and contingent payments. Results show that the implementation of traceability systems is necessary but not …
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